Malala Yousafzai takes my breath away…

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’ But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’ Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.’

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She is an amazing young woman and I hope she wins the Nobel. If you look past the “if it bleeds, it leads” headlines she represents the emerging face of Islam. Did you see the story about the 200 Muslims who formed a ring around that Christian church to prevent the Taliban attacking it like they did last month. Here’s the link. Muslims form human chain to protect Christians

Unfortunately she didn’t but she still has an awesome future ahead of her. Saw an item this morning where she says she wants to be PM of Pakistan. Well, perhaps not. She’d be crazy to go back there but who knows? But she could still write on the social media which Pakistani teens like ours are addicted to. We’ll see and will be interesting to watch her in the years to come.